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DIADES

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  1. KF31 is just a cut and shut MARDER. PAy no attention to it :)
  2. Yes it has been. The pics with no sensors are of the blast vehicle which has many expensive bits omitted. Not fitted is not the same as not integrated. Later pics of the non-blast vehicles for RMA clearly show the sensors.
  3. That is the original demonstrator. Quite different from those delivered for RMA
  4. yeah, don't get me started o that crap!
  5. earthmoving equipment uses pure steel track - literally a steel edge or two contacts the road at every link.. 99% combat vehicle track (in peacetime) use a steel track with rubber pads - only the pads contact the road. Same impact as a rubber track. Tracked earthmovers have no suspension so there are high in-equalities in load distribution as well. No comparison
  6. Military track (in peacetime) is friendly to all road surfaces simply as load is distributed so well compared to wheeled vehicles. Exceptions are when the midden intersects the ventilator and we revert to steel track and even rubber pad or band track does rip up bitumen if you pivot turn. Less damage on dirt as less traction. (less resistance to pivot)
  7. Needs to be able to slew elevate separately from the weapon to enable lead. Plus if the commander continues to use the remote sight when using the primary weapon (killer killer) then the sight must be able to slew and elevate independently as the ballistic characteristics of whatever small arm is mounted to the remote are radically different to the main weapon. Actually reduces performance as there are two sets of mechanical error available etc,
  8. That is half a recovery flat tow A frame. Each vehicle carries half so they have some intrinsic ability to recovery each other.
  9. No, it isn't. This model has features that are actually on delivered vehicles. Correct mirrors, relocated front camera etc
  10. we have driven down a mirror rabbit hole..! My point is that the CAMERA has been deleted. No number of mirrors on any platform in any way is equivalent to a CAMERA. Clebs post is very useful. Looks like the drivers camera has evolved. Latest version is more practical as it sits back behind the front edge of the glacis. I take back my comment about mounting provision too. It looks like the latest cast housing picks up on 4 existing armour mount bolts, Cable routs still not obvious tho. And on mirrors BOXER does not look t have any mirrors fitted during driver conversion training. It does have cameras.
  11. Understood and agreed - the mirror I am talking about is the one mounted near the right hand front lifting point on the REDBACk, the one angled to look down/forward instead of a camera. No BOXER has that. They have a camera.
  12. probably not - there are no mounting provisions or a port for the wiring. I actually liked their front camera with the groovy cast in spider!
  13. Absolutly, nothing wrong with that but. Still have to meet the spec and I can't see a mirror being much use at night!
  14. could be. This it would be odd as the mineblast test vehicle were to be first delivered.
  15. not sure we have apples and apples - that is not a production boxer ex Germany. They are painted DPP in Aus and have lots of gear including the SAS cameras fitted locally. they use tectonica cameras; I don't see a mirror added...
  16. Note that the front camera has been replaced bu a mirror! So, the strategy is cheap and nasty
  17. What the hell are the lumps on the glacis? Two look to have antenna base mounting patterns but are horizontal and I have no idea what the front two things are. Maybe the set of features is a clumsy FPECM install?
  18. yep, no way it could have been left as we first saw it. K9 will have to have something similar too'
  19. Ph3 is really, really not in any way an M113 replacement. Ph3 is something Australia has never had = IFV Utterly different. I frankly don't care about the nationalist side of this - I want the best equipment. The real RMA trials will shine a light on the claims of both teams.
  20. oh, and Germany is NATO... Germany has PUMA. Puma has Rheinmetall gun. I don't personally see NATO commonality as an issue for Australia (not a member) but if it was an issue, then I reckon Germany using the Rheinmetall gun suggest that it isn't
  21. yeah, vehicles are being delivered and moved around the country so regardless of official pics, some stuff captured by the public in Victoria on the roads to Graytown etc should pop up.
  22. So, the bottom line is that Australia is already in contract with Rheinmetall for Phase 2. The contracted BOXER CRV uses the Rheinmetall weapon. If there is any kind of ammunition issue, it is already real. I am struggling to understand what anybody posting might imagine that this topic has not been thrashed to bits by the ADF already. As for the main topic pf this thread - no way in hell does the choice between REDBACK and LYNX come to down to the single parameter of ammunition. So, anybody have any new images of either contender?
  23. Elbit is recruiting for its C4I business. EOS for is RWS and general electro-optic stuff. EOS is not a bad bet from an investment POV. But, I will bet you a carton that RA wins. (xxxx Gold even)
  24. nothing to do with how many products or projects a Prime has - that is their business model. They all have long (15 years plus) support contracts and they use the IP stick to stop CoA sourcing work on their platforms from others. Hanwha will do exactly the same for the same reasons. The saying is "give the vehicles to the customer for free, as long as they sign a support contract, that is where the money is!"
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